Yahoo! Web Hosting Service, Enhanced by Bizyweb Application
Date: Monday, March 24 @ 10:02:49 EDT
Topic: News Related to the Hosting Industry
Palm Springs, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - March 24, 2008 - Bizy, Inc. has released its Place Management application, Bizyweb, for Yahoo! webhosting and other shared webhosting environments, in conjunction with Semantic Designs, Inc.
Specialists in software re-engineering for complex systems, Semantic Designs (SD) of Austin, Texas has produced a low-footprint, distributable version of Bizyweb whose source code is protected using SD's Thicket Family of Source Code Obfuscators.
Most source code protection technologies for dynamic languages such as PHP or JavaScript are based on encrypting the source code with some ad hoc encryption algorithm and key. A protected, web-hosted program then requires the web host to hold the encryption key and execute the corresponding decryption algorithm. This has several disadvantages, including making the decryption key and algorithm insecurely available at the web host, outside the scope of protection of the application's owners, and forcing the web host to provide a decryption mechanism specific to the application. Both owners and web hosts are reluctant to support key-driven encryption.
According to President Sheryl Hamlin, Bizyweb's initial distributions were limited by such protection methods. Ira Baxter, SD's CTO, says that source code obfuscation removes the semantic cues from source code that make it possible for programmers to understand code, without changing the legality or meaning of the code in any way. An obfuscated version of an application such as Bizyweb can then be run on web hosts changes names to nonsense names, and removes all program formatting, protecting the source code by making it almost impossible to understand. Most obfuscators handle just a single language, yet web applications usually consist of components in multiple languages.
The SD approach protects not only the server side PHP source code but the client side JavaScript code as well; removal of layout whitespace for Javascript code has the additional benefit of improving page delivery bandwidth for complex pages.
According to Sheryl Hamlin, President, Bizy Inc.'s seminal product Bizyweb can transform an ordinary website into a dynamically, editable publishing platform creating a new genre of web application called Place Management. Webmasters will appreciate Bizyweb's rich Internet interface allowing them to maintain and manage a website from a browser connected to the Internet. Web site content owners will rely on Bizyweb to refresh content.
Major web hosts such as Yahoo!, 1and1, Hostgator, GoDaddy and others who support PHP, may install the Bizyweb Place Management application with an existing web site, because there are no host changes required. The new Bizyweb install procedure is a simple three-step process: 1) download the code from bizyweb.com, 2) unzip the code and 3) file transfer the code to the desired website maintaining the original web folder hierarchy. An installation document is also available for download.
Using the latest technologies including dynamically defined XML data structures, the patent-pending approach of the product Bizyweb is not to be confused with simple HTML editing. Using a familiar desktop skill, the user can point to an image to designate an editable 'place' on a page. Subsequently, the non-technical user or webmaster can peruse available web folders and select a new image for this 'place' even resizing or adding other properties upon insertion. The user may also highlight a text or a group of page objects and create a multi-purpose 'place' on a page to insert an entire article. There is a free whitepaper on the site called 'Creating a Page with Bizyweb' which demonstrates the steps in creation of a new article.
A special widget inserter will add Internet tools like the calendar to the page with a simple click. Widgets may be preconfigured and placed in a drop-down list for one-click insertion. A free whitepaper is available for download about the use of the widget insertion tool. Using the 'place' approach, only the designated places on the page are editable, thus preserving the look and feel of the page.
Place definition and content changes happen asynchronously, so that organizations can assign some users to create 'places' and others to add content to the 'places' in the multi-user version of the product. Free whitepapers are available for download on the site.
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
To learn more about Bizyweb, please visit: www.bizyinc.com.
For more information about Yahoo!, please visit: www.yahoo.com.
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